- From: Pete Markiewicz <pindiespace@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 5 May 2018 07:44:10 -0700
- To: Mike Gifford <mike@openconcept.ca>
- Cc: public-sustyweb@w3.org, Jack Lenox <jacklenox@fastmail.com>
- Message-ID: <CACx4u8=HcpoNigcO6O8YYDv9HSMkitMYMf55a4vS3Aqv64WP7g@mail.gmail.com>
What would really be cool is making a WP plugin that tied into EcoGrader.com, plus the badge. On Sat, May 5, 2018 at 7:43 AM, Pete Markiewicz <pindiespace@gmail.com> wrote: > Give us widget code! > > On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 1:39 PM, Mike Gifford <mike@openconcept.ca> wrote: > >> Hey Jack, >> >> Thanks for posting this. >> >> On May 4, 2018, at 1:59 PM, W3C Community Development Team < >> team-community-process@w3.org> wrote: >> With Mozilla's 2018 Internet Health Report finally shining a light on >> sustainability, and thanks to Chris Adams' presentation at MozFest last >> year, I've been inspired to seriously up my game in terms of helping >> wherever I can in this field. >> >> >> Mozilla’s been such a great force looking at the health of the Open Web. >> https://wiki.mozilla.org/Internet_Health_Report >> >> Is there a link to Chris Adams’ presentation? >> >> As a first step, I've put together a very simple WordPress widget that >> allows users to easily add The Green Web Foundation's badge to their >> website. I think of the widget more as a marketing tool than anything else >> – i.e. it gets The Green Web Foundation into WordPress' shop window. >> >> >> I like the The Green Web Foundation, but it isn’t being well supported. >> I’ve been trying to get Amazon’s new green hosting listed: >> https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/sustainability/ >> >> But as I understand it the GWF has “a self-service account environment >> where - normally - owners register their details and keep them up to date." >> >> So far Amazon hasn’t stepped forward to do this. >> >> You can see the widget in action on my blog (bottom of the sidebar). >> >> >> Cool. >> >> My next steps within WordPress are to create a theme that incorporates >> all of the sustainable web design techniques. My goal is to make a theme >> that can theoretically score 100 with Ecograder. I say theoretically >> because some things are dependent on the host, MozRank etc. But if, for >> example, I could get the demo site for the theme near to 100, that'd be >> awesome. And I could also centre all of the content on the demo site around >> Internet sustainability. >> >> >> You know about these past talks about Sustainable UX: >> http://www.sustainableux.com/talks/ >> >> I like to look at this from a systems point of view, I wrote up this for >> Drupal: >> http://openconcept.ca/blog/mike/tips-sustainable-drupal-7-8-website >> >> Similar stuff could be done for WordPress. >> >> Also, hello everyone! I'm Jack and I work as an engineer on the >> WordPress.com VIP team. I'm rather passionate about environmental >> issues. :) I was the Green Party candidate in a UK parliamentary >> by-election last year which meant I appeared on TV a bit! >> >> >> Most performance issues will have a sustainability impact: >> https://www.drupal.org/project/issues/search?status%5B%5D= >> Open&issue_tags=performance >> >> Also building in mechanisms like: >> https://www.drupal.org/project/imageapi_optimize >> >> But generally with Drupal I try to ask myself, what could be fixed in >> core so that we don’t just fix the 1% of the users that actually add the >> extension, but that we are able to shift the whole community. We’ve done >> this with accessibility. Sustainability not so much. >> >> Imagine if we could save 1% of the power used in all of the WordPress >> sites out there? What if we could make incremental gains so that it was >> easier for everyone to understand how their users will have better >> experiences (and use less power) if sustainability wasn’t just an >> afterthought. >> >> Mike >> -- >> Mike Gifford, President, OpenConcept Consulting Inc. >> Drupal 8 Core Accessibility Maintainer - https://drupal.org/user/27930 >> Twitter: @mgifford @openconcept_ca >> >> Open source web development for social change - http://openconcept.ca >> Drupal Association Member | Acquia Partner | Certified B Corporation >> >> > > > -- > ============================================================ > ================= > *Dr. Pete Markiewicz* > *Email:* pindiespace@gmail.com > *Portfolio:* http://plyojump.com > *Github:* http://github.com/pindiespace > *Linkedin:* http://linkedin.com/in/pindiespace > ============================================================ > ================= > > > > > *My "Ux in VR" presentations on Google Docs (note you can comment)WebVR > 1.0 > APIhttps://docs.google.com/presentation/d/13a29m0SbpTeItFP8fjrSoKNb7nsjAd4DC9lWnokWEfg/edit?usp=sharing > <https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/13a29m0SbpTeItFP8fjrSoKNb7nsjAd4DC9lWnokWEfg/edit?usp=sharing>Sustainable > Ux in > VRhttps://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1OTXaz3RuV0HWgM754PRMUC7d2KYVHH974s5hnAt53wk/edit?usp=sharing > <https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1OTXaz3RuV0HWgM754PRMUC7d2KYVHH974s5hnAt53wk/edit?usp=sharing>Sustainable > virtual design blog:* http://sustainablevirtualdesign.wordpress.com > *Sustainability template:* http://greenboilerplate.com > *Sustainable Ux in Virtual Reality for Sustainable Ux 2017 (narrated): * > *https://youtu.be/bU0tz05lcBw <https://youtu.be/bU0tz05lcBw>* > ============================================================ > ================= > *Buy my book! *- Millennials and the Popular Culture > *Lifecourse:* http://www.lifecourse.com/store/catalog/lca/mpc.html > *Amazon Author Page:* http://www.amazon.com/Pete-Markiewicz/e/B0069VZ7BG/ > ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_pop_2 > ============================================================ > ================= > *On that page, see my DARPA Grand Challenge 2005 entry video, "Team > Robomonster":* > *Team Robomonster *(DARPA 2005 Grand Challenge): > http://robotsthatjump.wordpress.com/category/team-robomonster/ > ============================================================ > ================= > *Indiespace *(1st to sell downloaded music, March 1994): > http://www.indiespace.com. Also see http://archive.org under > "Kspace.com" 1996 for our original site. > ============================================================ > ================= > -- ============================================================ ================= *Dr. Pete Markiewicz* *Email:* pindiespace@gmail.com *Portfolio:* http://plyojump.com *Github:* http://github.com/pindiespace *Linkedin:* http://linkedin.com/in/pindiespace ============================================================ ================= *My "Ux in VR" presentations on Google Docs (note you can comment)WebVR 1.0 APIhttps://docs.google.com/presentation/d/13a29m0SbpTeItFP8fjrSoKNb7nsjAd4DC9lWnokWEfg/edit?usp=sharing <https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/13a29m0SbpTeItFP8fjrSoKNb7nsjAd4DC9lWnokWEfg/edit?usp=sharing>Sustainable Ux in VRhttps://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1OTXaz3RuV0HWgM754PRMUC7d2KYVHH974s5hnAt53wk/edit?usp=sharing <https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1OTXaz3RuV0HWgM754PRMUC7d2KYVHH974s5hnAt53wk/edit?usp=sharing>Sustainable virtual design blog:* http://sustainablevirtualdesign.wordpress.com *Sustainability template:* http://greenboilerplate.com *Sustainable Ux in Virtual Reality for Sustainable Ux 2017 (narrated): * *https://youtu.be/bU0tz05lcBw <https://youtu.be/bU0tz05lcBw>* ============================================================ ================= *Buy my book! *- Millennials and the Popular Culture *Lifecourse:* http://www.lifecourse.com/store/catalog/lca/mpc.html *Amazon Author Page:* http://www.amazon.com/Pete-Markiewicz/e/B0069VZ7BG/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_pop_2 ============================================================ ================= *On that page, see my DARPA Grand Challenge 2005 entry video, "Team Robomonster":* *Team Robomonster *(DARPA 2005 Grand Challenge): http://robotsthatjump.wordpress.com/category/team-robomonster/ ============================================================ ================= *Indiespace *(1st to sell downloaded music, March 1994): http://www.indiespace.com. Also see http://archive.org under "Kspace.com" 1996 for our original site. ============================================================ =================
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